Archive for March, 2004

What do you hate and what do you love

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

What do you hate the most?
I hate redundancy and complexity when it’s the result of laziness or politics and serves no helpful purpose. I hate flourescent lights. I hate white noise. I hate learning stuff. I hate car commercials.
What do you love?
I love textures, and the sky, and understanding how something works. I love the [...]

Life imitates art

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

I just watched an itsy-bitsy spider crawl out of the drain into our bathroom sink. Down came the rain…

Right at this moment

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

I wish I had a camera right now to show you the scene I am witnessing. I’m sitting on the back patio. It’s 65 degrees, and I’m in the shade. There is a nice breeze, and birds everywhere are calling out to each other.
Kevin is pulling our very serious child around the yard in [...]

From the desk of Nicolaus C.H. Ard

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

Critical tasks for the day
1. Put puffed kamut into the gas tank of my little tikes car.
2. Feed bottle to pet giraffe
3. Bring all books in the house to my mother. She requires them all to be stacked on her lap and her laptop computer immediately.
4. Sweep the floor.
5. Shoe-related tasks:Put shoes on the monkey. [...]

Bright, innocent child doomed to a life with dumb parents

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

So Nicolaus just brought me a plastic bottle filled with white rice. Tee he said. Tee!
What’s that, baby?
Tee! He says it a bunch more times. He’s really excited, but I don’t know why. Finally he shakes the bottle with one hand and says it again Tee!, and with the other hand, pokes his finger into [...]